30-somethings going all boomer with regard to CoD lobbies is so funny.
Don’t even know why because those early lobbies were awful. Trying to play and you’ve got some prepubescent kid screeching in your ear and giving you early tinnitus.
CoD implemented some kind of llm powered slur detection system that would insta-ban people for using slurs and people were malding so hard and it was glorious
is it a bunch of children screaming into voice chat? is that what theyre failing to “survive”?
In my experience yes. In the several hundred hours i played there wasn’t even much screaming of slurs. Or even much screaming. It was mostly people on console who didn’t realize they had mics yelling at other people in the house or blasting music. Idk what people are on about.
Romanticizing a mediocre era by imagining that everyone else must have been as openly rabidly racist as they were/are
It’s really funny how these guys are waxing poetic about “growing up” and “being a man” and shit while they STILL haven’t gotten over getting off screaming the N-word online as a 12 year old. Literally the most immature, tantrum-prone people you’ll ever meet
Voice chat was a mistake
I’m at the point in my life where I don’t play games that rely heavily on voice chat. If I can disable it, I do. If i can’t disable it, and it is not deemed a necessity to have success in the game, I just ignore it and play the game on mute.
I play a lot of Hunt and it’s near unique in having local voice chat everyone can hear, but almost no one is an asshole. I’ve played with a number of women randoms over the years and never heard anyone given them shit about being women. I think that’s near unique in gaming.
Lethal Company has been very accepting and…well, joyous, in my time. Numerous women voice chatters, people using correct pronouns, and just generally supporting and helping others.
If I can disable it, I do.
This is the first thing I do when I boot up a new online MP game. The majority of people nowadays don’t even use voice chat and the few who do are usually the most obnoxious people you can imagine.
My only exception to this is Battlebit because the proximity chat is consistently pretty funny and people usually aren’t assholes in that game specifically
